PRINTER'S NO. 1118
No. 935 Session of 2007
INTRODUCED BY ARMSTRONG, JUNE 8, 2007
REFERRED TO APPROPRIATIONS, JUNE 8, 2007
AN ACT
1 Making appropriations to the Philadelphia Health and Education
2 Corporation for the Colleges of Medicine, Public Health,
3 Nursing and Health Professions and for continuation of
4 pediatric services.
5 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
6 hereby enacts as follows:
7 Section 1. (a) The sum of $7,759,000 is hereby appropriated
8 to the Philadelphia Health and Education Corporation for the
9 College of Medicine for the fiscal year July 1, 2007, to June
10 30, 2008, for instruction in the Doctor of Medicine program.
11 (b) The sum of $1,727,000 is hereby appropriated to the
12 Philadelphia Health and Education Corporation for the Colleges
13 of Medicine, Public Health, Nursing and Health Professions for
14 the fiscal year July 1, 2007, to June 30, 2008, for the general
15 maintenance of the Colleges of Medicine, Public Health and
16 Nursing, including the Allied Health, Professions and Graduate
17 Schools, and for student aid.
18 (c) The sum of $307,000 is hereby appropriated to the
1 Philadelphia Health and Education Corporation for the fiscal
2 year July 1, 2007, to June 30, 2008, for minority educational
3 and recruitment programs.
4 (d) The sum of $712,000 is hereby appropriated to the
5 Philadelphia Health and Education Corporation, for the fiscal
6 year July 1, 2007, to June 30, 2008, for continued pediatric
7 outpatient and inpatient treatment of severe physically
8 disabling diseases.
9 (e) The sum of $149,000 is hereby appropriated to the
10 Philadelphia Health and Education Corporation, for the fiscal
11 year July 1, 2007, to June 30, 2008, for continued support of
12 the handicapped children's clinic.
13 (f) The sum of $2,011,000 is hereby appropriated to the
14 Philadelphia Health and Education Corporation, for the College
15 of Medicine for the fiscal year July 1, 2007, to June 30, 2008,
16 for operating expenses.
17 Section 2. (a) Payments to the Philadelphia Health and
18 Education Corporation on account of the appropriations provided
19 in section 1(a), (b), (c) and (f) shall be made quarterly by the
20 Secretary of Education on the basis of costs during the fiscal
21 year and shall be conditioned on continuing authority for
22 inclusion on the Board of Trustees of the Philadelphia Health
23 and Education Corporation of a minimum of five persons who are
24 not elected officials and who are appointed by the Governor, the
25 President pro tempore of the Senate, the Minority Leader of the
26 Senate, the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the
27 Minority Leader of the House of Representatives for terms of
28 office coterminous with that of the respective appointing
29 authority; and shall be further conditioned on these appointees
30 receiving full voting rights as members of the board of
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1 trustees.
2 (b) Payments to the Philadelphia Health and Education
3 Corporation on account of the appropriations provided in section
4 1(d) and (e) shall be made by the Secretary of Health in equal
5 quarterly payments.
6 Section 3. (a) The Philadelphia Health and Education
7 Corporation shall provide full, complete and accurate
8 information for the appropriations under section 1(a), (b), (c)
9 and (f) as may be required by the Department of Education or the
10 chairman or the minority chairman of the Appropriations
11 Committee of the Senate or the chairman or the minority chairman
12 of the Appropriations Committee of the House of Representatives.
13 (b) The Philadelphia Health and Education Corporation shall
14 provide full, complete and accurate information for the
15 appropriations under section 1(d) and (e) as may be required by
16 the Department of Health or the chairman or the minority
17 chairman of the Appropriations Committee of the Senate or the
18 chairman or the minority chairman of the Appropriations
19 Committee of the House of Representatives.
20 Section 4. The Philadelphia Health and Education Corporation
21 for the Colleges of Medicine, Public Health, Nursing and Health
22 Professions shall report its revenues and expenditures and
23 present its financial statements in accordance with generally
24 accepted accounting principles and procedures for educational
25 institutions as set forth in the "Higher Education Finance
26 Manual (1975)" and the "Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Budget
27 Instructions for the State System of Higher Education, State-
28 Related Universities and Non-State-Related Colleges and
29 Universities."
30 Section 5. The trustees of the Philadelphia Health and
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1 Education Corporation for the Colleges of Medicine, Public
2 Health, Nursing and Health Professions shall report on forms
3 provided by the Department of Education to both the chairman and
4 minority chairman of the Appropriations Committee of the Senate
5 and the chairman and minority chairman of the Appropriations
6 Committee of the House of Representatives by September 30, 2008,
7 on how State-appropriated funds were expended for fiscal year
8 2007-2008 to reduce the costs to Pennsylvania resident students
9 or to provide services to Pennsylvania residents.
10 Section 6. This act shall take effect July 1, 2007, or
11 immediately, whichever is later.
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